Penelope Lively
Penelope Lively is a novelist and short-story writer. Her novel Moon Tiger was awarded the 1987 Booker Prize. Her most recent memoir, Ammonites & Leaping Fish, was her view of life at eighty.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Books Do Furnish a Room
Penelope Lively
‘The shelves say something about the person who has stocked them; they say much.’